re: ATF raids home; Kills Clinton National Airport executive director

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How? Guy goes to work, his house gets searched while he's gone. He can't flush his coke down the toilet because he's not there.

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Not all evidence might be located at that one location.

If I'm doing dirt and cops raid my home, I will know it as soon as it happens. That gives me the option to destroy evidence at another location or GTFO.

That's why LEO tries to secure the defendant when they do these searches. They may find new evidence to get other search warrants to execute in real time. They may have PC after the search for an arrest. The situation is malleable.

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They can do that anywhere.

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You can't serve a search warrant on him at work and search the house contemporaneously. You then have to go to the property they are authorized to search (without an arrest warrant to detain the defendant).